Home

Behind closed doors and punched

in walls, parents argue, siblings

fight.

The neighbors party and sometimes

take flight.

The one place that is still always

perfect.

Temperatures

never too hot or cold.

Old slippers and sneakers

lined up at the front door.

Ooohhh, the family secrets that

threatened to swallow us whole.

You're familiar with every creak,

bump and sound.

I look around this old, lived-in space

and every memory of family comes

rushing in.

Mommy's cake plates that were

never empty.

Untidy poster walled bedrooms.

Daddy's Blues piping loud all night

long from the mancave, in the

basement.

It's strange and completely suffocating.

All the things that made us dysfunctional

made us family most of all.

Ⓒcjj (Chyrel J. Jackson)

BIO:

Chyrel J. Jackson is a Literary supernova and #1 Ranked Best Selling Amazon Author. Reared and raised in the South Suburbs outside Chicago. Black Literature influenced her writing. Chyrel Jackson writes in the spirit of her past great Literary ancestors.

Previously published works: SistersRoc’N’Rhyme Presents Poems in the Key of Life, Mirrored Images and Different Sides of the Same Coin Her writings: appear in multiple poetry Anthologies, Literary Journals, and International Global Magazines.